Artists // Steve Heimbecker

6 May 2008

The new sound installation Turbulence Sound Matrix by Steve Heimbecker will be presented every evening of the Elektra 9 festival, prior to the concerts at Usine C, from May 7 to 10, 2008. Steve Heimbecker will also present his 64-channel audio piece Signe composed for the installation.

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17 May 2007

Steve Heimbecker is one of the contributors of the book edited by Monika Bakke entitled Going aerial. Air, art architecture. The book is published by the Jan van Eyck Academie (The Netherlands).

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11 May 2007

Artists A_dontigny, Louis Dufort, Chantal Dumas, Steve Heimbecker, Mathieu Lévesque, Francisco López, Tomas Phillips and Hélène Prévost will get together to form the Victoriaville matière sonore ensemble that will present, under Francisco López’s direction, a collective work of acousmatic art realised using recordings previously realised in the town of Victoriaville. This event will take place on May 19, 2007 as part of the 24th FIMAV.

  • Visit the FIMAV 07 event web site — 24e Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville: May 17-21, 2007, Victoriaville, Québec
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11 May 2007

Darren Copeland, Steve Heimbecker, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp are Amongst the renowned artists who will take part in The Art of Immersive Soundscapes 2 (AIS2) of the University of Regina (Canada). These creative and theoretical forums will take place from June 9 to 22, 2007. You can listen to Darren Copeland’s repertoire on his electroradio stream.

  • Visit the The Art of Immersive Soundscapes 2 event web site — Copeland, Hatzis, Heimbecker, Moffat, Monahan, Truax, Waterman, Westerkamp…: June 9-22, 2007, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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11 September 2006

Several artists from Québec will take part in “Waves,” a media art event held at the Arsenals exhibition hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, in Riga on August 25 to September 17, 2006. Steve Heimbecker, Jean-Pierre Aubé, and Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Julien Roy, Jimmy Lakatos and Pascale Malaterre) are amongst the selected artists.

  • Detailed information on the Waves event web site — Exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art: August 25 - September 17, 2006, Riga, Latvia
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4 July 2006

Invited by curator Esther Bourdages, seven Canadian artists joined forces with Spanish composer Francisco López for the Montréal Sound Matter / Montréal matière sonore project. Working from a common pool of field recordings from Montréal, Louis Dufort, Steve Heimbecker, A_dontigny, Chantal Dumas, Hélène Prévost, Mathieu Lévesque, and Tomas Phillips created an audio work which will be released as a compilation CD. All together, they have put together a sound installation that will be presented from July 7 to August 27, 2006 at the Darling Foundry (Montréal). To complete the project, a concert featuring all these artists will be held at the Darling Foundry on July 27.

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8 July 2005

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) presents a series of concerts and in situ installations at Toronto’s Center Island (ON) from July 24 to September 4, 2005. On August 5, 2005, a portrait concert of composer Yves Daoust will be presented at St Andrew-by-the-Lake Church. The featured works, Petite musique sentimentale, L’Extase, Mi bémol, Water Music, and Bruits, will be spatialized by the composer. On August 6, 2005, Daoust will take part in a second concert with Adagio (Jennifer Waring, flute); works Frances White (Parmela Attariwala, viola), Damián Keller, and Charlie Fox along with premieres by “emerging composers” David Ogborn, Lewis Kaye, Parmela Attariwala, and Rose Bolton are also on the programme. On these same days, in situ sound performances by Steve Heimbecker and Neil Cadger will take place prior to the concert.

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9 January 2004

In Montréal on January 20, 2004, Éditions Artextes launched S:on, Sound in Canadian Contemporary Art, an anthology compiled by Nicole Gingras. Amongst the artists represented on this publication we find Pierre-André Arcand, Georges Azzaria, Steve Heimbecker, Hugh Le Caine, Christof Migone, Hélène Prévost, Jocelyn Robert, R Murray Schafer, Michael Snow, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, and Hildegard Westerkamp.

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10 February 2003

During the 2003 Mois Multi event, Steve Heimbecker presents his latest interactive installation, “Wind Array Cascade Machine” February 14, 2003 in Québec City’s studio d’essai in the Méduse artistic complex.

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29 January 2002

During the “Mois Multi” events, musician Michel F Côté and choregrapher Catherine Tardif presents “Soi-même/Priser à deux,” a minimalist duo that delicately blurs the frontier between music and body. The evening also proposes a sonic installation by Jean-Pierre Gauthier, “Piézoom,” and an audio performance by Steve Heimbecker, “What is not Babylone.” A Recto-Verso presentation, held at the Multi hall of Méduse (Québec City), Friday February 22, 2002.

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Steve Heimbecker
Saskatchewan, Canada, 1959
Residence: Montréal, Québec
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